  | | | Maya hairs! | Maya hairs! 2004-04-01 - By todd akita
Back Andras Ikladi wrote:
> Adam Seeley wrote: > >> Yup, I got that. >> >> I just was commenting on an apparent shortfall of XSI hair and how >> you are >> seemingly only able to have a maximum of 15 subdivisions along a >> strand of >> hair (in the hope that someone might prove me wrong). >> >> >> > Could you plz detail when 15 segments are limiting? Is that really > such big problem?
15 segments is simply inadequate if you are trying to do somehing longer than shoulder length hair. It might be fine for a bat but if you need to do long hair you absolutely need more than 15 segments since a segment or two can wind up being about an earlength long which doesn't really cut it for me when it comes to locking points and creating curls and waves.
There is a rather interesting anomaly with the hair system where as the hair strand gets longer, it becomes proportionally less responsive to dynamics since it seems that the dynamic results are applied at the segment joint and that the segment length is not taken in to account so much. It definitely makes styling things and tuning dynamics difficult, since the bangs and long hair in the back behave very very differently with the exact same forces and dynamics settings.
I'm very curious to hear of anyone else's experiences with long hair and how they've dealt with both the segment resolution issue and the dynamics/strand length problem.
-T
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